Personal Narrative: Becoming A Pharmacy Pharmacist

My brother Timothy is currently studying to become a Pharmacy Technician. Although his main goal is to become a Pharmacist, it has been a headache to get to where he’s at now in his schooling. His experience with school has been a very bumpy roller coaster ride, but he definitely has his mind set on what he wants to be and there’s no way he can do it without finishing college. Because unless he doesn’t get his bachelors degree there’s no way he’s getting into Pharmacy school.
High school was pretty much a breeze for Timothy. He never failed a class, graduated perfectly in 4 years with honors, was in the JROTC program, and even an afterschool physical activity team called Raiders. He got accepted to BMCC where he completed a semester with good grades. However the
commute to Manhattan from Queens was way too long so he decided to transfer to QCC.
He came in his first semester thinking it was going to be as smooth as BMCC, but he was completely wrong. He chose Computer Science as his major, which mid semester he realized he wanted nothing to do with. Which lead him to drop classes and fail miserably in the ones he was still enrolled in. He then decided that he should probably take a summer class to boost the horrible GPA he was left with. But he got so caught up in work he never went to the summer class in which actually resulted in an F grade, and him having to pay out of pocket for a class that did nothing for him. Now comes fall semester and when he tried to enroll in classes they were automatically dropped due to his financial aid being cut off because of the low GPA. He now had to take a semester off and write a letter of appeal explaining to financial aid why he did so poorly last semester and how much better he would do the next to semester if he was granted back his financial aid. During this whole time he was in a program
called College Discovery, which honestly helped him get through the whole situation. The program assigns you a set counselor who helps guide you towards your career choice and what major to select. They also have you take mandatory tutoring for any class you’re taking which he found was very helpful to him. Aside from this he felt that having to meet with his counselor every week to update and explain how he’s doing in classes really kept him motivated to always have good reports.
Now with all this happening he had no choice but to pick a major in Liberal Arts just so he could take basic classes and at least get his Associates Degree. The 3 years it took him to get his degree both hurt and helped him. It helped him because he can’t get his Bachelors degree without completing the first two years of college. But it was also hurtful in the sense that it has nothing to do with the career path he chose. Most classes he took were basic necessities that you would need in probably any degree, but a lot of credits were lost for the classes that didn’t count towards the medical field he’s now aiming for. The amount of time he wasted not knowing exactly what he wanted to do and failing classes he could have been started Pharmacy school already. But according to him everyone works at a different pace and just the fact that he’s set on what he’s doing is enough to keep him doing good in his schooling. So all in all he believes that an education is very much necessary as long as you know where and what you want do with it.